AAP acceptance with "ok" scores and super low GBRS?

[Anonymous]

That's the thing with all of this gaming of the system-careful what you wish for. Getting in is only one hurdle-STAYING in and thriving is another!!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

I saw a case where the students scores were lower than 120, and the GBRS was on the low side. The parent referred and used all the right buzz words (had inside knowledge), and the child was admitted. The child returned to his base school midway through the year. Hmmm...

I do not believe this. I do not believe with low scores, and a low GBRS, children are admitted (unless there is a WISC which is a better test). This is simply trolling to try to claim that the system can be rigged, when it it is much more robust than people think.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

I saw a case where the students scores were lower than 120, and the GBRS was on the low side. The parent referred and used all the right buzz words (had inside knowledge), and the child was admitted. The child returned to his base school midway through the year. Hmmm...

Lie. You don't even know the exact GBRS or score. "All the right buzz words" from "inside knowledge."

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

Hard to see how a co-worker and you are having a discussion about low-ish scores and mediocre GBRS. Are you asking about your own kid in a round about way?

No, especially since my own kid has no 2nd grade GBRS scores and my oldest has been in AAP for 3 months now. I hope my middle child's is not low but I have no idea. Not sure how it's hard to see what we were talking about but ok . . .

You guessed on the scores.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

Hard to see how a co-worker and you are having a discussion about low-ish scores and mediocre GBRS. Are you asking about your own kid in a round about way?

No, especially since my own kid has no 2nd grade GBRS scores and my oldest has been in AAP for 3 months now. I hope my middle child's is not low but I have no idea. Not sure how it's hard to see what we were talking about but ok . . .

You guessed on the scores.

OP here. She said 113 NNAT, 129 CogAT, 8 GBRS. I said 8 or 9 to suggest either would be low. She said they didn't do a WISC but they did do work samples, had letters, and some chess awards.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

Hard to see how a co-worker and you are having a discussion about low-ish scores and mediocre GBRS. Are you asking about your own kid in a round about way?

No, especially since my own kid has no 2nd grade GBRS scores and my oldest has been in AAP for 3 months now. I hope my middle child's is not low but I have no idea. Not sure how it's hard to see what we were talking about but ok . . .

You guessed on the scores.

OP here. She said 113 NNAT, 129 CogAT, 8 GBRS. I said 8 or 9 to suggest either would be low. She said they didn't do a WISC but they did do work samples, had letters, and some chess awards.

Unless "some chess awards" means the child did something very special (2nd grade grandmaster) not buying it. I also cannot imagine a set of circumstances where I would give a co-worker (or even a pretty close friend) this amount of detail about my kid's scores. Something is very off here.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

Hard to see how a co-worker and you are having a discussion about low-ish scores and mediocre GBRS. Are you asking about your own kid in a round about way?

No, especially since my own kid has no 2nd grade GBRS scores and my oldest has been in AAP for 3 months now. I hope my middle child's is not low but I have no idea. Not sure how it's hard to see what we were talking about but ok . . .

You guessed on the scores.

OP here. She said 113 NNAT, 129 CogAT, 8 GBRS. I said 8 or 9 to suggest either would be low. She said they didn't do a WISC but they did do work samples, had letters, and some chess awards.

Unless "some chess awards" means the child did something very special (2nd grade grandmaster) not buying it. I also cannot imagine a set of circumstances where I would give a co-worker (or even a pretty close friend) this amount of detail about my kid's scores. Something is very off here.

Not OP but I shared both my older kids scores with anyone who asked and have had plenty of people share with me, maybe because my kids are in AAP, I don't know. When we're all in FCPS and not coming out of the same ES, it doesn't seem like a big deal to share. Usually it's in the context of people trying to figure what score generated successful entry and which ones didn't. I've also had people ask me if my kids were in pool or parent referred. Again, I don't mind sharing. It's not a secret. I'd share their IQ's if someone asked me. Why not. I didn't mind sharing. That said, these scores OP is mentioning are way too low for AAP.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

I saw a case where the students scores were lower than 120, and the GBRS was on the low side. The parent referred and used all the right buzz words (had inside knowledge), and the child was admitted. The child returned to his base school midway through the year. Hmmm...

Lie. You don't even know the exact GBRS or score. "All the right buzz words" from "inside knowledge."

I don't remember the GBRS score but I remember that it was less than 12. I was shocked when I saw the scores, and our resource teacher said that the child got in by parent referral. I was also aware of the parent's position in the school system and that there would be knowledge of how to most effectively word the referral.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

Hard to see how a co-worker and you are having a discussion about low-ish scores and mediocre GBRS. Are you asking about your own kid in a round about way?

No, especially since my own kid has no 2nd grade GBRS scores and my oldest has been in AAP for 3 months now. I hope my middle child's is not low but I have no idea. Not sure how it's hard to see what we were talking about but ok . . .

You guessed on the scores.

OP here. She said 113 NNAT, 129 CogAT, 8 GBRS. I said 8 or 9 to suggest either would be low. She said they didn't do a WISC but they did do work samples, had letters, and some chess awards.

Unless "some chess awards" means the child did something very special (2nd grade grandmaster) not buying it. I also cannot imagine a set of circumstances where I would give a co-worker (or even a pretty close friend) this amount of detail about my kid's scores. Something is very off here.

Not OP but I shared both my older kids scores with anyone who asked and have had plenty of people share with me, maybe because my kids are in AAP, I don't know. When we're all in FCPS and not coming out of the same ES, it doesn't seem like a big deal to share. Usually it's in the context of people trying to figure what score generated successful entry and which ones didn't. I've also had people ask me if my kids were in pool or parent referred. Again, I don't mind sharing. It's not a secret. I'd share their IQ's if someone asked me. Why not. I didn't mind sharing. That said, these scores OP is mentioning are way too low for AAP.

Presumably because you don't mind bragging? Hard to envision someone sharing low, precise scores.

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But OP said the co-worker's child got in so clearly the co-worker didn't mind sharing low scores. *shrug.* Maybe had the child not gotten in the coworker wouldn't share. I don't know. We don't share to brag, we share when asked. If not asked, we don't share. We're not ashamed and usually someone is asking trying to understand who scores make it and what scores don't. We don't mind sharing our experience. We have 2 in AAP and one in 1st grade we hope will also get in AAP when its time.

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I can't believe all these people who would ask, and who would tell. Your 2nd grader will one day be a MS student, a HS student, then an adult. They don't deserve to go through life with everyone knowing their "number"- even if the number is high. Once my kids are 16-18, I'll tell them their scores, if they want to know. And if THEY want to share, that's their choice. It's not my place to make that decision for them. Are you parents who share IQ scores really okay with other people discussing your kid's IQ. And maybe one day having a mean or clueless friend of a friend tell them they've done great getting into x college, especially since your IQ is only 125. Grades, test scores, health information-- this is my kids' personal info. I'd have hated it if I found out in HS that my mom had blabbed all my info to anyone who would listen.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a child get into AAP with "ok" scores and super low GBRS? I'm thinking 129 scores and 8 or 9 GBRS. My co-worker said her child did and I am floored. This was in 2013.

I saw a case where the students scores were lower than 120, and the GBRS was on the low side. The parent referred and used all the right buzz words (had inside knowledge), and the child was admitted. The child returned to his base school midway through the year. Hmmm...

Lie. You don't even know the exact GBRS or score. "All the right buzz words" from "inside knowledge."

I don't remember the GBRS score but I remember that it was less than 12. I was shocked when I saw the scores, and our resource teacher said that the child got in by parent referral.[u] I was also aware of the parent's position in the school system and that there would be knowledge of how to most effectively word the referral.

That makes total sense that the resource teacher is confiding in you. SO believable now!

[Anonymous]

I would think (of course I don't know but going off score threads) if a child has scores under the pool benchmark they need a 14-16 GBRS. An 8-11 GBRS is only ok with scores in 140's and up.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe all these people who would ask, and who would tell. Your 2nd grader will one day be a MS student, a HS student, then an adult. They don't deserve to go through life with everyone knowing their "number"- even if the number is high. Once my kids are 16-18, I'll tell them their scores, if they want to know. And if THEY want to share, that's their choice. It's not my place to make that decision for them. Are you parents who share IQ scores really okay with other people discussing your kid's IQ. And maybe one day having a mean or clueless friend of a friend tell them they've done great getting into x college, especially since your IQ is only 125. Grades, test scores, health information-- this is my kids' personal info. I'd have hated it if I found out in HS that my mom had blabbed all my info to anyone who would listen.

+1. This is your child's information and it seems really inappropriate to share it.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think (of course I don't know but going off score threads) if a child has scores under the pool benchmark they need a 14-16 GBRS. An 8-11 GBRS is only ok with scores in 140's and up.

My DS had 117 cog at and 127 Naglieri. 16 GBRS With thorough commentary. Was not admitted. Currently in 4th, and is pulled into AAP for math. Works well for him.